Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23
NEWS NUGGETS.
Extracted from the Mine of Mis-
cellaneous Matters, on our
Claim, and Assayed for
our Delyers after
knowledge.
Notice the Output.

The Cleveland Globe has begun it's
third year.
Mr.. Allen Wood, colored, has been
appointed letter carrier in New York.
Brantford, Ont, has a colored phr-
snologist in the person Of Mrs. Joseph
Green.
Mrs. Mary Green, colored, of Paducah,
KY, is l05 years old and is cutting her
| third set of teeth.
Mrs. Minnie Bond, a colored woman
of Falls Church, Va, died last week at
the age of l2s years.
Mrs. Oracle Y. Elliott, wife ofthe l.te
congressman R. B. Elliott, died last
| week in New Orleans.
Frederick Douglass is refreshing his
classical memories beneath the shadows
| of the Acropolis at Athens.
Mr.. Alex. Peyton, colored, is foreman
in the moulding rooms of a large
foundry at Van Vert, Ohio.
Mr.. O. Hunter, Jr., has been dismiss
ed from the Pension Office at Washing
ton, because he was colored.
Misses Mary E. Angus and Lizzie J.
Trimble, colored, of Pennsylvania, have
recently gone as missionaries to Africa.
Mr.. w, V. Turner, colored, who was
RECENTLY discharged from the Pension
Office at Washington, has been reap
pointed
The article on the Negro race for the
supplement to the encyclopedias Britain.
lea will be written by Hon. George w.
Williams, our colored historian.
Mr.. E. W. White, colored Republic
can was elected last Monday at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, as one of the members of
the Board of Public Works, of that city.
Mr.. r. j. Harlan, a son of Represen-
tative Robert Harlan, will contest for
the $75 prize at the commencement of
the Cincinnati Law School next Monday.
Mr.. Alonzo Watson, who was recently
appointed hoseman of No. Fire Com
pany Of Williamsport, Pa, has the dis
tintion of being the first and only colored
man appointed in that city.
Mr.. N. L. West, colored, of New Al
bany, Ind, who for the past SIX years
has been a clerk for large boot and
shoe house, last week bought out the
business and will in the future conduct
it himself.
Mrs. Ella B. Spencer, colored, of
Chicago, is the author of a five-act drama
entitled, Branded by the Dead,"'
which is being rehearsed by company.
of colored artists in that city to be pre-
at the Academy of Music early in June.
A handsome young quadroon by the
name of Mary Robinson, who claims to
be a daughter Of the old Snowman John
Robinson, is yictimizing the men about
Maryland and Virginia by claiming she
has lots of wealth and inducing them to
spend money in trying to get it for her.
Mr.. G. Bennett. white, and Miss
Lizzie Cool, colored, were recently
married in Sabine, Ohio. Thomas
Beatty, colored, and Lucy Beecher,
white, were recently married in Gin
cinnati, being the first couple to procure
license in that city, under the recently
amended law permitting such marriages.
The Bulletin is the name of new
journal which is promised to appear in
New York this week Howard L. Smith
will be publisher and proprietor, and
'yictoria Earle" editress, A company
will also be formed for the purpose of
publishing literary and political journal
simultaneously in New York and vir-
ginia. Among those who will be inter.
ested will be Hon. John B. Syphax,
"Victoria Earle" and Howard L. smith
/ On Friday of last week Mr.. R. c. o.
Benjamin disposed of his interest in the
NEGRO American of Birmingham, Ala,
to Mr.. W.. T. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss,
vice chancellor of the knights of Pythias
and Mr.. Albert Boyd, ex-editor ofthe
"Selma Independent" who will con-
duct it in the future. Mr.. BENJAMIN at
once left for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
4 is to meeta sister who recently arrived
in this country from Demerara, West
Indies. They will shortly leave fol
New York and thence will embark fol
Germany where she goes to pursue he1
studies.